On 11/18/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 11:48 -0800, spmirowski wrote: > > From: "Clyde E. Kunkel" <clydekunkel7734@xxxxxxx> With a radeon 9200 > > AGP card and FC6 + rawhide I was getting a smidgen over 200 FPS with > > glxgears and then I put Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" in xorg.conf > > and glxgears shot up to a consistent 2238 FPS. Is this possible or am > > I getting bogus readings? Is there a better benchmark for 3D performance? > > > ID games have demos (can run in timedemo (runs game faster if possible) > mode, too): > Quake 3 Arena > Return to Castle Wolfenstein > Enemy Territory (free game) > Doom III > Quake IV > > Or Some Epic games: > Unreal Tournament 2003/4 > > Google Earth can be pretty intensive if you turn up the 3D options. > (free version avail). > > GLXgears has almost no geometry and a whole lack of shaders and no NPC AI. > It is a good, quick test to see if yer 3D is operational, but a terrible > test of performance. I tried it for nVidia 3200+ and it seems to make no difference at all... 950 FPS mostly, in glxgears. <sigh> Ric
glxgears is an exceptionally poor benchmark, as its results are impacted by numerous factors unrelated to the graphics card or X driver that you're using. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
